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Loved playing this on my C64. Had a friend from school who told me about a version which allowed you to link two C64s and to play together. Amazing how I believed him, even to the point of taking my C64 setup around his house and trying to get this dual version he had a copy of (on tape) to load, but failing...

Great video mate and a great time for you and your kis. I'm from the UK but been in Australia for the last 16 years. Asteroids was the first game I ever played in the arcades....born in 75. I hope I can get back to the UK someday and have the same experience with my kids. Much love x

Loved Elite on my breadbin, loved Elite Frontier on my Amiga, love Elite Dangerous on my PC. Elite is the Dr Who of gaming.

This was one of my very first C64 games and therefore feels very nostalgic. We kind of made it a rule to play it every Friday the 13th when we were teens.

1:00:00 you gonna be there both days this time ya git! I’ve got it in the calendar!

The classic! Man i found this game impossible, glad you are revisiting it for me bro!

The screaming screens scared the Jesus out of me when I played this game, I was like 6 years old. Good times.

Aw I missed the live/premier. Well gonna watch now! Cheers CCG!🕹

Fantastic game..spent months on it..still play to this day.

This was the first RTS game i ever tried :))) Still love it to this day, and still play it from time-to-time :))

I had this on PC, I can't count the number of times I was defenestrated. An interesting and fun game! I never really got the concept of subtlety as a kid, and so I ended up beating what seemed to be half of the UK to death with a rubber hose.

What is there to even say about Elite that hasn't been said? It deserves all the praise and glory that it gets.

Interesting unique game. My first thought is that this reminds me a little bit of "Papers Please" on Steam.

2:17 these cyan things don't do anything, I have never managed to make Monty fly, he has 4 tickets. I just give up. I gave up on the previous game too, ridiculously hard and broken games, idk how they work for some others.

First thing I thought when I saw the samurai was out like exactly like that pirate game.

not familiar with this one, would have been too complicated for me at the time

When I finally learnt to dock and then to sell narcotics and slaves, this opened up the whole Elite universe to me. What a classic.

Hey i just found this channel and i love it. Long shot question/request, there was a cover disk (maybe late 80's) on Amiga Action. On one of the discs there were some sample tunes and one of the tunes was a real somber and relaxed piece, the main instrument sampled was like a raw piano melody, i dont know why but i listened to it over and over (especially when i was stressed) any ideas?

it sounds like an interesting be the bad guy game. If there had been two games one from each side (So one running Floor 13 and the other trying to bring it down.) it might have been more fu though,

Ah yes, great game to satisfy your inner sadist! Also, very nostalgic and the theme very reminiscent of the 80s and early 90s.

A very ambitious game for the C64, amazing they managed it so well.

I picked this up for PC on a whim when I was a teenager. Really appreciated the atmosphere of the thing, and I think it perhaps got a jump on "Papers, Please" with regards to working within an evil bureaucracy. The fact that "you" are also a member of a secret society that may have its own goals certainly never helped my avoiding a visit from Mr. Garcia.

I did not understand that Elite was a major extension of Atari's Star Raiders. This seems to be what Star Raiders could have been with 8X the available memory.

we used this for training in North Korea. Er, I mean, THEY used it for training...

Loved this game but it was painfully slow. Whenever appraching a sun for refuelling, I'd switch to rear view just to speed it up. A mate of mine had the ZX Spectrum version and it was superior.

As they say, they don't make them like this anymore 😁 Imagine someone trying to publish something like this these days 😁

Thank you for sharing this! David designed and programmed this cult classic. I did the graphics programming and audio and helped with porting. Really appreciate the review, thank you!

I want to love this game. I really do, but it’s just never really worked for me.

I had this game as a kid... but didn't have the manual. So I had no idea what I was doing. I was too overwhelmed at the time. A friend of mine really enjoyed the newer Elite Dangerous game on Steam... and would play it all the time. He tried to get me into it, but I honestly never gave it a fair shake. I should probably give this C64 game and/or the newer game a try.

I've never seen this one, but it looks kinda interesting. I agree with you on the plates. I always thought they looked a bit odd.

I love this game, even if some of the events aren’t massively obvious as to how to do them successfully. Love the cult aspect which solely comes into focus as you play which gives the best ending. It’s flawed but I wish there were more games like this

I got this on PC - what a convoluted game this was - needed to bring an IQ to this game! Spycraft was a much better game, though, that covered the same subject matter!

Interesting concept, but somewhat boring implementation. It could have been greatly improved by interjecting some sections with action scenes, such as controlling agents who need to gather information from hostile areas, etc. I wonder what grade the Amiga magazines of the day gave it?

I liked this game and quite atmospheric, in fact I love these espionage games like 'Spycraft' an 'The President is Missing'.

This game was really boring and not easy to play. The fact you needed a lot of random video clips just to get us entertained shows how unpleasant the game was.

As a finnish 🇫🇮 retro tomcat 😺🕹️, i meow admitting one thing: I have never played - nor heard of - FLOOR 13 😹. The game seems absolutely challenging 😺👍🕹️. Somehow, it reminds me of COVERT ACTION. It looks so cool, i could give a try 😺👍.

Such a classic and agree on the time it takes to get good at it, but sooo much game play and repeatable game play in it.

The first issue of Zzap had the game

I loved the other Popeye game on the C64. I played it all the time. I never got around to playing this one, though. I'm tempted to give it a whirl... although like you said, it looks a bit sluggish.

Never played this, apparently it was a semi-budget price of £3.95 that was later released at the full budget price of £1.99. Doesn't look a bad game for the price, especially on rerelease, it would have looked nicer if they managed to use multicolour sprites however, but perhaps it was a struggle to cram everything in.

I used to get a bug where with you (Bruce Lee) or Yama would punch the wall at the bottom right of the screen and it would hit you. If you lay down it would miss. So you'd have to make your way down to the bottom, occasional ducking to kill him. It only really happened on the first 3 screens.

Those larger than life sprites were certainly something. They were a bit too large, tbh. I did enjoy discovering the world in this one. Never figured out what to do. Never finished it either. Doesn't matter. I'll watch a longplay. Nice memory.

One of my first games. Loved it. Loved Popeye. I loved all strong characters, in any franchise. Played this one alone in the attic, at night. Was scared shitless of the 'ghost' that appears on the sides in the first area. Later on I learned that it's actually a sea hag. Although in my memory, the ghost/hag looked different. Maybe I had a busted crack or something. Anyway, I loved being scared shitless and then having to go down the dark attic stairs to come back downstairs. Never told my folks about being scared. I was such a little psychopath that I enjoyed my fear on my own.

Dogfights were a nightmare on the C64, not least due to the lousy framerate. The 16 bit versions were _much_ more forgiving and managable. As soon as you could afford a military laser in the rear position, you could always just flee from attackers and pick them off with the 6:00 gun - something that was not possible on the 64 version.

I played this game quite a lot, although I was always disappointed that I never got offered any of the missions. That's probably because I bought the galactic hyperspace jump as soon as I could afford it, and then used used it. I probably did the same in the second galaxy, so by the time I reached the rank where I'd be offered missions, I'd already moved past the galaxies that you get them in. I was very disappointed with the Amiga version. Initially, I liked it with it's fast and smooth graphics, but the more I played it, the more empty it felt. Unlike the 8-bit versions, there are no friendly or neutral ships. Any time you encounter another ship(or ships) while jumping toward a planet, they're ALWAYS hostile. It feels more like a shooting gallery than a living universe. Thargoids are also supposed to be the enemy of all other races, but they show up alongside other prates. I was once bumping up my kill rating by sitting just outside the safe zone on an anarchy world, waiting for pirates to attack, flying inside the safe zone so that they would break off, and then flying back out to destroy them one at a time. Eventually, a Thargoid showed up, but it didn't break off when I entered the safe zone. I decided to fly to the station and the Thargoid followed me, hammering my ship all the way. I eventually decided to return fire. The station immediately launched police Vipers, who came out and helped the Thargoid kill me. Today, a worthy successor to Elite is the freeware Oolite. It's like an updated version of Elite, with the base game having all the same ships, all the same planets, all the same cargo, etc. You can also easily expand it by just dropping expansions into the add-ons directory, no complicated install process needed, and removing them is just as easy. Oolite portrays a living universe where other ships go about their business independent of the player. On the downside, it's not unusual to get jumped by a pack of 20+ pirates at once. If you're lucky, you may get help from nearby ships, or you may just get blown to pieces. Oh and the one time I encountered a Thargoid ship near a star, it wrecked me in seconds as they no longer seem to have a front and back and can fire constantly no matter what angle or direction the ship is facing.

I remember having to restart so many times because we accidentally knocked the c64. And the infernal docking computer that would sometimes drive straight into the side of the station. curses!

This is definitely one of my favourite games, I have played this on so many different Computers. Genius programming all the way.

Loved the game, and loved the music! I remember I had this as my ringtone in the early 2000's on my flip phone! Thanks for the nod to Lord of Dragonspire. That's what I'm talking about...recommending other games that I didn't have when I was younger. We used to have 'copy parties' where friends would bring their game disks, and we'd use Nibbler or Fast Hackem to copy disks (e.g., pirate)...yes, I realize it was bad to do that now. :)